Summer Wonfes hype!

Summer WonFes was held in Japan today and once again many gorgeous new figures (as well as dolls) were announced ^3^ I thought I'd make a little blog post about the ones that got me all excited~ There is a huuuge list of all the figures that were announced!

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I just died at these new versions of Nina and Chisa ;____; They're both super adorable! I can't even tell which one I like more yet, maybe Chisa with that adorable hairstyle... Me and Sarg already have a Nina and a Chisa, but who knows if they'd like new sisters/friends? ;3 Need to think about these, there'll probably be more photos later that help me decide - or just make the decision harder hahah :'D

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Kyaaa ♥ This pink-haired Lil Fairy Vel is so adorable ;3; Unfortunately she seems to be quite hard to get... You need to buy a photobook in order to be able to order her and I'm not sure if that's for people living in Japan only. I'm sure some will pop out on Yahoo Japan etc. sooner or later, but the prices might be too high u_u We will see! I already have one pink-haired Lil Fairy and Sarg has two Vel cuties, so this one's not really a must-have.

Photo © neemosi

Azone is making a 50cm doll of Devil Homura *o* The outfit and wings look gorgeous, but I'm not that keen on the face... Which is good, since I'm sure this is going to be quite expensive, popular and possibly some kind of an exclusive >_< I'd love to make a cosplay of this for one of my dolls at some point!

Photo © GSC_GUMA

Nendoroid Co-de figures of the three main charas of iDOLM@STER Cinderella Girls ♥ These seem to be sold as a set only, so I'm not sure if I end up getting them... Their outfits are cute, but they're almost identical and all :( I would've loved to get just one of them, either Rin (the one on left) or Uzuki (the one on center), but all three is too much. I don't even like Mio as a character that much ^^; So yeah, I guess I'll just pass on these.

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Nendoroid Petits of Love Live girls! These will probably be sold as a set, but they're all really pretty and different from each other, so I don't really mind. These outfits and the little fans look soo cute ♥ (I want to see the LL movie already!!)

Photo © Amiblo

I was sure that GSC would make a Nendoroid of Frozen's Anna at some point to accompany Elsa :3 The face in the picture seems to have the same kind of O_O expression as Elsa, but hopefully she'd also come with a faceplate with a less starey gaze. The outfit and other details do look adorable, I also love Olaf with the little summer hat XD His expression looks a lot better than the one that came with Elsa! Looking forward to more pictures :3

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Hahah, this is not something that I'd want in my collection, but it's still so epic that I had to post it XD It's Joker Nendoroid!! It's cool that GSC has started making different kind of Nendoroids too, not just the cute girl characters all the time. These Nendos based on movie/game charas seem to be quite popular too!

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Ranko is my favorite character from iDOLM@STER Cinderella Girls, I love to see more figures of her! I'll need to see what kind of prize tag this figure has and what it ends up looking like when all painted, but so far it looks promising ;3; I prefer the looks of this to the previous one too.

Photo © Spica

My friend Spica is currently in Japan and went to WonFes, she's been posting pictures of her journey on Instagram! I haven't seen anyone else posting a picture of these Pri Para prize figures by SEGA. I've seen Lala before (and possibly Mireille as well, though I'm not sure), but omg Sophie ♥♥ She's my favorite character from the show and I just love that pose, her face and everything~ Many people speak badly of prize figures due to their cheap prize, but to me they often look as good as the more expensive scales, sometimes even better ^^; I absolutely need to get this Sophie!!

There were also announcements for Kusanagi Motoko by Kotobukiya, Musashi & Sonansu by Megahouse and super cute Rollercoaster Sonico by Banpresto!! The two latter ones were announced before WonFes though :)

I guess that's about it for me! Looks like Nendoroids will be dominating my collection in the future as well X'D

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Do you guys have any new figures you're excited about? :)

Frozen Elsa Nendoroid - first impressions

The "another Nendoroid" that I briefly mentioned in the end of last post is no other than Queen Elsa from Frozen~! ♥ I already picked her up on yesterday, but didn't have time to take pictures and post about her until this evening (had a relative's graduation party earlier today etc.) I tried to make a bit of a review on this Nendoroid, or at least share my first impressions on it :)

I'm such a huge dork for Disney movies and Frozen is definitely one of my favorites ever, so it was quite obvious that I needed to get my hands on this figure! I didn't pre-order Elsa right away though and apparently she was quite popular since by the time I was about to place my order, I noticed that she was already sold out on Amiami... So, I had to opt for Hobby Link Japan. I prefer getting everything from Amiami to combine shipping, but on the other hand the shipping for just one Nendoroid isn't that expensive with SAL/Airmail. At least I was able to get her shipped right away once she was released and didn't have to wait for any other items to be in stock!

The box is maybe a bit larger than the average Nendoroid boxes, which is a bit surprising considering that she didn't come with that many option parts... But the box design is super pretty, there are lovely little snowflakes everywhere and you can definitely see that Good Smile Company put a lot of thought into designing it. Many Nendoroid boxes look quite plain, so the detailing of the box was a bit of a surprise, especially since this wasn't even a limited/exclusive figure in any way.

The backside of the box shows what different poses you can put Elsa into!

Here you can see all the option parts she came with. She has three faces in total, three additional arm parts, a snowflake thing, a fabulous base and of course, her buddy Olaf. The blue special base was the only one she came with and it doesn't have an attaching mechanism like the ordinary bases. Even the Ultimate Madoka and Devil Homura Nendoroids didn't have as beautiful and detailed bases as Elsa has XD

This is what she looked like when I took her out of the box. I don't like this smiling expression that much, it looks a bit creepy...

Reminds me of a Moomin character, Lady of the Cold XDD

This face at least a bit better, but I don't like this one that much either... Overall, I could say that I'm a bit disappointed with the faces :/ They put so much thought into the detailing of the outfit, hair and even added a special base, but it feels like they failed with one of the most important things - the facial expressions. 2 out of the 3 faces look quite manic and don't really portray Elsa's character and personality correctly ^^;;

This last expression, looks a lot better, I think! ♥ And this will definitely be the pose that I'll display her in~

The background cardboard of the box had this beautiful landscape of the land of Arendelle ♥

It works perfectly as a photography background for Elsa :3

Look at how beautiful and detailed the cape is! I managed to break it almost right away though, it was very badly glued in : < But luckily it was easy to attach it back with some super glue, so no permanent damage was done!

Another close-up of her outfit, the bodice sparkles and there is a cute snowflake accessory on her hair ;3; (Forgot to remove the plastic under the bodice before I took this photo...)

Then here's Olaf, he looks a bit manic as well... "I LIKE WARM HUGS!"

But it's okay Olaf! You and Elsa can look manic together X'D

Lmao, I tried on another Nendoroid's face just for fun XDD Usually you can mix and match the parts from different Nendoroids, but it doesn't really work that well with Elsa, since her skin is lighter than most of the Nendoroids. I'm sure you can see the difference if you compare the face to the rest of her skin. It doesn't look that bad imo and I'm sure you could hide the difference in Photoshop.

Overall, even though there are things about her that I don't like, I'm still glad that I got her! I'm sure that her price will only raise on the second-hand market and due to her popularity she might be hard to find as well, so I wouldn't want to hunt for her now ^^; This is probably one of those figures that is a must-have for those who love the Frozen movie and/or Elsa's character, but don't really interest anyone who buy figures just based on how they look.